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AMD Catalyst 14.1 BETA 1.6 – Mantle Drivers – Available Now For Download

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And we are a little late to the party. AMD has released a couple of hours ago a beta version of its Catalyst 14.1 drivers that enable Mantle on Battlefield 4. According to the release notes, gamers can expect performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series, as well as performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series.

Those interested can download them from Guru3D.

And here are their release notes:

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows

Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

  • AMD A10-7850K
  • AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

  • AMD’s Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
  • Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
  • Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series
    • AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
    • It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features
  • AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
    • AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs
    • AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs
    • AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs
    • AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs
    • AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
  • For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com
  • Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series,  7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations
    • Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
    • Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
    • Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
    • Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta

  • Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
  • Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level.

Resolved Issues 

  • Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game

  • Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level

  • Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode

  • Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out

  • Black screen happened after wake up the monitor

  • Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode

  • Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video

  • Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene

  • Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene

  • Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11

  • Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled

  • Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire

  • Resident Evil5 ‘s performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode

  • Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text

  • Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06

  • Negative Crossfire scaling with game “The Secret World” in DX11 mode

  • F1 2012 Crashes to desktop

  • Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX

  • Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty

  • Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems

  • Choppy video playback on 4k Video

  • VSync ON Tearing with 2×1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire

  • Far Cry 3 – Game flickering while changing resolutions

  • Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array

  • Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time

  • No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in “High Performance” when playing certain video clips

  • Image crashed on Starcraft game